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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #30 on: March 06, 2016, 08:12:53 AM »
 :yeah:  I've spent entire mornings cleaning up brass, shotshells, garbage and targets. 

I don't usually try to single out a demographic or user group.  However, I have always found that you can hear the mess-makers from a mile away.  Drinking, hollering, and shooting hundreds of rounds.  As a testament to how sloppy and careless these shooters are, I've found dozens of unfired shotshells at some locations  :dunno:
Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with too many facts.

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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #31 on: March 06, 2016, 12:37:08 PM »
When I've volunteer with WTA, Earth Corps, etc. for Master Hunter hours I try to talk with people and let them know what I'm doing it for. Trying to break the stereotype that all hunters do that stuff. Trying to show people that we give back and not all of us are drunk meth heads raping the land!
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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #32 on: March 06, 2016, 04:53:03 PM »
That's the landing up past Mill Creek I think. Disgusting.

Landing is off Abernathy Creek road/E-4000, and a DNR pit near Sarah Creek (Abernathy trib).

That neighborhood gets hammered by dirties.  Dirties with guns, dirties with ATVs, dirties with chainsaws.  As the first significant patch of public land close to town, it gets desperately abused (much like Greenwater, since the 70 road is the first major access to the woods from town, and Sultan Basin, for the same reason).

I've yarded bags upon bags of garbage out of places like this...and it's repopulated the next weekend.  It's really tough for law enforcement to cut paper on this sites, so the best bet is usually to just block them off.  Dirties also tend to be lazy--it's no fun to carry your TV 1/2 mile by hand to shoot it.

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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #33 on: March 12, 2016, 11:43:31 AM »
Those pictures look like every log landing and gravel pit located in Capital Forest within 3 miles of the highway. What is really sad also when you see live fir trees that were at least 24 inches in diameter shot off 4 feet from the stump. How many rounds does it take to shoot a tree down that size and why?

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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #34 on: March 14, 2016, 12:23:17 AM »
Those pictures look like every log landing and gravel pit located in Capital Forest within 3 miles of the highway. What is really sad also when you see live fir trees that were at least 24 inches in diameter shot off 4 feet from the stump. How many rounds does it take to shoot a tree down that size and why?

I dont understand why people don't pick up after themselves. I guess its the same mentality with some smokers and their butts. It only takes an extra 5 minutes tops to clean up your shooting area... the last time I went out with some buddies from work we ended up carting off 3 bags full of trash(I'd say a good 90% wasn't ours) and it took us less than 5 minutes to pick up all of that up.  :dunno:

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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #35 on: March 14, 2016, 11:11:20 AM »
someone should put up some cams :tup:
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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #36 on: March 14, 2016, 06:35:45 PM »
It's just SAD !  Here in Kittitas co we have a problem with a trend of college kids going to goodwill and buying China/glassware for targets
This place protected by God and Guns trespass and you might get to meet Both !

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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #37 on: March 15, 2016, 07:52:44 PM »
All the ar15 packing zombie killers need a lesson on clean up. 

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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #38 on: March 18, 2016, 09:33:06 PM »
People who litter are trash themselves. I've confronted my share over the years but it's practically useless...I keep hoping one of them pulls a knife on me so I can dispose of them properly.
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Re: Wonder why the woods are closing
« Reply #39 on: March 23, 2016, 09:30:52 PM »
Best thing you to do is to pick up some of it when you can, although it usually seems like a loosing battle.

 


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